| Show STAGNANT WATERS A CAUSE OF DISEASE IN THIS CITY tiie the preservation of health and the prolongation of life ilfe are of the highest importance this all concede without argument and a knowledge of anything th ng which will conduce to either is eagerly sought after science is brought into requisition the vegetable and animal kingdoms sare sore are ransacked for preventives and remedies tand land long years of study nay a lifetime spent in earnestly seeking after knowledge is sometimes not considered too much to pay for obtaining an understanding of the causes and remedies for some of the diseases with which mankind are afflicted no people place a higher value on life than we do although no people look upon death and the future with more equanimity because none can have a greater co confidence or certainty of the future when we see our little ones taken from ua us the tear of af affection will flow though ve we are satisfied and confide confident nf of their happiness in the world to which they have been taken when faithful men and women lay down their bodies we reflect upon their labors andt and the be years ears of happy associations we have iad tad nad pad with them and we mourn the loss which we have sustained in their being taken from us though we have the strongest assurance that our loss is their gain and that they have gone to enjoy the reward of their faith faiths falness ful ness but aut we wish to prolong life for usefulness li preserve reserve health that we may laborwitt labor with unabated powers until the span of mortality is reached reached we long for and labor to bring the day when a I 1 child shall die a hundred years pid gid and ana when as the da days ys of a tre tree e shail shall I 1 be the days of the pe people pie of G god od for this purpose was tho the the word d of wisdom given and with this object in yiew Is IV taught and enjoined upon the saints teachings are cons constantly Witly given from the stand and through the press to live temperately on healthy food td build our houses that pure air can surround us by night and day to adopt fashions that thab will give the h human system free muscular play and jn all ail things to study how to perpetuate our existence in this probation and our sanitary measures should in id all respects correspond with the individual efforts made to preserve health it Is a fact well known to those who have pioneered or been long residents in any part of this great western country that new land if at all swampy or covered with stagnant water M will wiil breed chills and fever and various farious other diseases which afflict mankind and shorten life when the saints settled tle tie d in commerce illinois afterwards nauvoo na u that part of the counti country y was exceedingly sickly and the mortality rate was very high for the number of inhabitants there was swampy marshy land in the vicinity and especially y on the other side of tle the the river and it was deemed by many a very poor place to attempt to build up a city but by the labors and perseverance of the saints under the blessing of god od the place became more healthy as it was beautiful the drainage of the swamps and the cultivation of the soil had this effect and had we dwelt there until the present resent no place in the west would rave eave have been more healthy for the past three years the rain fall in this territory has been much larger than usual there has been an abundance of snow in the mountains to raise the rivers and creeks in the warm season to their highest amplitude and rains hat hav jiava fallen failen la izz great plenty at turnes ulmes swelling little rivulets into rushing stream streams and covering low and level lands with deposits of water when dry weather continues for a time in the hot season miasmatic vapors are sure to impregnate the atmosphere in the neighborhood of such stagnant waters producing disease and increasing mortality if people reside contiguous to them but when they collect in the vicinity of a city like ghisi this as they do on the low land to the west and southwest of the city in the neighborhood of jordan nothing less could be expected than that diseases would be multiplied and some of them assume an almost epidemic form it does not nott follow as a matter of course that the disease denease or diseases should always assume the same form the malaria produced by buch such impregnation of the atmosphere acting t u upon the human system will produce dase disease which may be infectious infections or otherwise according to the condition of the individual affected it is therefore probable that the increased mortality of the past two months or ower over over especially among children may be to a greater or less extent attributable to this 0 ause we have learned from a reliable authority that thab in the fifth and sixth wards chills and fever have made their thell appel appearance and that several persons have suffered from nhom them this is an additional dit ional proof that the waters grbich collect west of that point foint and aud which unquestionably breed malaria prodoc produce considerable of the disease and mortality that have been in this city duning the latter part of summer and early fall yail of thet thel past three years can that land be drained and can the source of the miasma be removed these are questions which if the position assumed be admitted admit admitted teb tea demand a speedy and practical aniber answer it is no unusual thing for water sees boget to get blocked up by floating grass rotten twigs decaying vegetation an and dothen other dother things and on low grounds the water thus impeded soon spreads over surface if the fall to the adjacent sloughs is enough for water to run ruu the effectual draining of that portion of land would not be difficult and the land thus redeemed near the city would more knord than pay ay the outlay but even if the draining should be very difficult the removal of of a great caus cause of disease if it Is so and the saving of life consequent upon its 1 R 9 kiam liam removal flem jem oval i should be paramount consid orations i |
